VICTORIAN SEANCE PLUS

He has also appeared in numerous plays around the UK.

He was also the Magic Captain on the UK Tour of the Disney musical 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks'.Īs an actor Sam has appeared in Wicked (West End), Avenue Q (UK Tour), Little Shop Of Horrors (UK Tour) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK Tour). As a magician, Sam has written and devised with other performers for the past ten years, and has performed Seance Live in a number of 'haunted' UK buildings including Lumley Castle Hotel, and Beamish Hall in County Durham. Sam Lupton is an actor and magician, originally from the North East. Please note - This performance is for entertainment purposes only and is not a spiritual event or gathering. Tickets £20 including a Victorian Punch and a 20% donation to the Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery. Select from premium Victorian Seance of the highest quality. Maybe that will be one dark night this October?īoth skeptics and believers are welcome to join him, but leave your prejudices at the door and prepare to join hands and to have your mind altered. Find the perfect Victorian Seance stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. He believes there is a logical explanation for almost everything, but is constantly hoping to be proved wrong. Our medium Sam Lupton has had an interest in the paranormal and psychic phenomena from a young age, and is fascinated by mystery. If science could allow communication with distant America via the newly-laid transatlantic cable, couldn’t it also provide the means for us to speak to the dead? Interest in ghosts, levitation, table-tapping, automatic writing, shadow photography and telepathy flourished seances were held at dinner parties and clairvoyants and mediums became international celebrities. However, sances also grew to be a source of entertainment for many people of the Victorian Era. The seance as we perceive it today was born in the United States in the 1850s and is an important piece of American history. I created the show in order to share with the general public what it feels like to be in a traditional seance.

VICTORIAN SEANCE PLUS

In many cases, sances were an entirely somber event with only the loved ones of the departed present, plus the psychic medium facilitating the sance. Victorian Seance Revisited is a theatrical representation of a traditional nineteenth-century seance. The rapid scientific progress that took place in Victorian times had an eerie parallel in that society’s popular fascination with spiritualism. In fact, sances became one of the most popular pastimes during the Victorian Era. Why let death get in the way of a good conversation? Join us on a dark October evening at London’s Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green for a journey into the unknown with a reconstruction of a Victorian séance.

Victorian seance